(Sioux City)– Two Dickinson county residents have been sentenced in federal court on drug charges.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, evidence at plea and sentencing hearings showed 29-year-old Meghan Renken of Spirit Lake and 32-year-old Jared Wolthuis of Milford were involved in a conspiracy that distributed more than three pounds of pure methamphetamine between July 2018 and March 2020 in Dickinson county.
On March 17th, 2020, law enforcement executed a search warrant at a co-conspirator’s residence and seized 20 pounds of meth from an outbuilding. As the warrant was being executed, authorities stopped Renken and Wolthuis as they were driving away. A search of the vehicle they were in turned up three pounds of pure methamphetamine that Renken and Wolthuis admitted they were planning to distribute to others. Both were charged with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
Renken pled guilty on September 14th of last year and Wolthuis on July 7th of last year. Renken was sentenced last week to 31 months in prison while Woltuis will serve 36 months. Renken is in the custody of a U.S. Marshal pending transport to a federal prison; Wolthuis was released on bond previously set and is to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons.
